He has founded The Reform Project with the mission of removing the corrupting influence of money on politics

Too late to help propel his now castoff presidential ambitions, Buddy Roemer,
or at any rate the issue of campaign finance reform he has championed,
is finally drawing a crowd. At the end of a two-hour hearing Tuesday
before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil
Rights and Human Rights titled, "Taking Back Our Democracy: Responding
to Citizens United and the Rise of Super PACs," Sen. Dick Durbin,
D-Ill., who chaired the hearing, noted that 400 people had packed the
hearing and a nearby overflow room.

It was a crowd that
occasionally made its sentiments known at a hearing that was, with the
exception of Roemer and Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow at the libertarian
Cato Institute, an entirely Democratic affair. No Republican members of
the Senate attended the hearing, not even Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C.,
who had asked that Shapiro appear to deliver a contrary point of view.

Roemer
entered Congress as a Democrat with Durbin 31 years ago, but, while
serving as governor of Louisiana, switched parties in 1991. Roemer ran
for the Republican presidential nomination, and then launched an
independent run for president. In both incarnations he ran as an apostle
of reforms intended to remove the corrupting influence of money on
politics. Those campaigns now behind him, Roemer has founded The Reform
Project, with the same mission.

Roemer is calling for such
statutory changes as requiring full and swift disclosure of
contributions, a ban on lobbyist contributions and limiting PAC
contributions so the committees cannot give more to any candidate than
an individual can give. Roemer said that after the hearing Durbin
expressed interest in crafting legislation that might embody some of his
ideas, and Roemer said he plans to call out Republicans for sacrificing
their one-time zeal for disclosure on the altar of big money.